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Ethiopia: First Donkey Abattoir Shuts Down
BY ADDIS FORTUNE Just three weeks after becoming operational, the Bishoftu City Administration has shut down the first donkey abattoir, Shandong Dong. Located 48Km away from Addis Ababa, the...
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Egypt, Sudan Agree to Cool Down Tensions
BY SUDAN TRIBUNE Sudan and Egypt agreed Thursday to work together to ease tensions between the two neighbouring countries through the control of hostile media campaigns and to curb activities of...
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The TN Weekend News Digest #6
Miss some news this week? Catch up on a few of the stories with this quick weekly news digest. Ethiopian Foreign Minister: My Country Would Never Harm Egypt BY MIDDLE EAST MONITOR Ethiopia’s Minister...
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U.S. Citizens Warned Against Travel to Gondar after Grenade Attacks
“There had been four grenade blasts this month in Gondar” BY AFP The United States issued a warning Thursday to its citizens about travelling to a popular tourist region in Ethiopia after a string of...
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Ethiopia is Facing a Killer Drought
The government is playing down the severity of the crisis to keep the country from looking bad internationally. BY PAUL SCHEMM | WASHINGTON POST The announcement by the United Nations in March that 20...
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US Doesn’t Need Ethiopia in its War on Terror in the Horn of Africa
The Trump administration would be wise to delink its counterterrorism strategy from the Ethiopian regime, which barely clings to power by a state of emergency decree. BY ALEMAYEHU G. MARIAM | THE HILL...
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Egypt and Eritrea Foreign Ministers Discuss South Sudan, Regional Issues
“The Egyptian and Eritrean delegations also availed of the opportunity to exchange views on regional and international issues of common concern.” – Eritrean Gov’t Spokesman. BY DAILY NEWS EGYPT Egypt’s...
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Somaliand Not Concerned by Ethiopian PM Comments: Minister
BY THE NATIONAL – SOMALILAND The government of the Republic of Somaliland [not yet recognized] has officially responded to statements made by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn last week...
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Ethiopian Activist Guilty of Terrorism for Facebook Posts
BY AFP A judge in Ethiopia’s capital on Tuesday found a former opposition spokesman guilty of encouraging terrorism with a series of anti-government Facebook posts. Yonatan Tesfaye was arrested in...
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What’s it Like Living in a State of Emergency
You really cannot imagine what it’s like to live under the state of emergency just by reading about it on newspapers. BY SEIF MAGANGO | DAILY NATION My three days in Addis Ababa recently felt like a...
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Ethiopia’s Cholera-Denying WHO Candidate is Taking a Battering Online
BY ENDALK Thousands of Tweets, several open letters and a relentless online campaign have dogged Ethiopia’s candidate for the World Health Organization Director-General position, Tedros Adahanom, as...
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Ethiopia’s Tedros Adhanom Becomes First African Head of WHO
BY LENA H. SUN | WASHINGTON POST The governing body of the World Health Organization on Tuesday elected Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a former Ethiopian health minister, to head the global health agency...
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Eritrea’s Deepening Relation with Egypt Has Nothing to do with Ethiopia Dam
BY ESAT NEWS The claim by the Ethiopian regime that the relation between Eritrea and Egypt is targeting Ethiopia’s Renaissance dam is “unfounded and stems from an unhealthy mindset,” Eritrea’s...
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Djibouti Opens New, Modern, Multipurpose Port
The Doraleh Multipurpose Port is now the most advanced port in Africa BY TESFANEWS Djibouti has formally opened today the country’s latest mega project and one of four new ports designed to cement the...
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“We Must Strengthen the Multi-Dimensional Cooperation Between Eritrea and...
BY SHABAIT It is to be recalled that President Isaias Afwerki conducted a two-hour live interview with local media on May 20 on the occasion of the 26th Anniversary of Independence Day. Excerpts of the...
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President Isaias on New TPLF Eritrea Policy, Water and Socio-Economic...
BY SHABAIT It is to be recalled that President Isaias Afwerki conducted a two-hour live interview with local media on May 20 on the occasion of the 26th Anniversary of Independence Day. Excerpts of the...
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Eritrea, Everybody’s Favourite Enemy
What happen at the Eritrea Djibouti border as soon the Qatari peacekeeping troops withdrew? BY THE INDIAN OCEAN NEWSLETTER Ever since Qatar announced on June 14 it was withdrawing the observation force...
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UNDP Africa Director Faces Corruption and Nepotism Charges
The regional Director of UNDP for Africa, Ethiopian national Tegegnework Gettu, faces corruption and nepotism charges by employing the daughter of a top TPLF official without any competitive employment...
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Ethiopians Debating Over Who Really Owns Addis Ababa / Finfinne
A ticking time bomb. TPLF is sowing the seeds of discord, suspicion and mistrust by exploiting the apprehension of various stakeholders on the future of Finfinne, also known as Addis Ababa....
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Saudi – Qatar Rift and its Implications to the Horn of Africa
Who are the real winners and losers of the Qatar – Gulf Crisis? How will the crisis impact the future of the Horn of Africa region? BY AMANUEL BIEDEMARIAM The Golf Cooperation Council comprised of the...
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